When comparing Songza vs TIDAL, the Slant community recommends Songza for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of finding new music?”Songza is ranked 12th while TIDAL is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Songza is:

Songza will ask a series of questions to deduce what kind of playlist you should listen to.

Pros

Pro

Music based on mood or event

Songza will ask a series of questions to deduce what kind of playlist you should listen to.

Pro

Playlists by music experts

What Songza calls “Concierge” is a service that will offer pre-made playlists created by music experts.

Pro

Easy to use

The interface is super-simple and easy to understand.

Pro

Free

Songza is free to use.

Pro

No audio ads

There are no audio advertisements, only website banners.

Pro

Amazing quality

The Tidal music streaming service has a maximum streaming quality of 1,411Kbps bit rate with FLAC-formatted lossless files. This is quite an upgrade compared to most music streaming services, which go at about 320Kbps bit rate.

Pro

Built-in audio search

The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.

Pro

Discounted student subscription

Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.

Pro

Pays artists more

As of March 2018, TIDAL pays the artists 2/3 more than Apple Music and 3 times more than Spotify, for an equivalent catalog and subscription price. (40M songs on TIDAL and Apple Music vs. 30M on Spotify, $9.99/mo for all 3). Napster is the only service that pays the artists more than TIDAL.

Ad

Cons

No cons yet!

Con

Expensive

At $19.99 per month, it's one of the most expensive streaming services out there (there is a cheaper subscription available at $9.99/month).

Con

Songs may take some time to load

the Tidal music streaming service may take up to 10 seconds of buffering to load and play a song, sometimes even stopping a song mid-way to buffer.

Con

Small music catalog

The music Catelog selection here is not that big. Other services have over 40 million songs.

Con

No free tier

The Tidal music streaming service has no free tier available. Only a 7-day trial. While the trial is helpful for learning what the service has to offer, it may not allow for a complete picture due to the time limit.

Each month, over 2.8 million people use Slant to find the best products and share their knowledge. Pick the tags you’re passionate about to get a personalized feed and begin contributing your knowledge.